Former U.S. Army Interrogator Describes the Harsh Techniques He Used in Iraq

Another fact that the Bush regime is attempting to cover up is that the torture used on Iraqi civilians (mostly farmers) was 99% ineffective at gaining any accurate information. The scenario is that if somebody looks like they may know something, they are kidnapped by US military on a hunch (WAG = wild ass guess) and detained indefinitely without being given food and/or water and subject to conditions of hypothermia and other perverted sexual tortures..

Somebody who doesn't really know what's going on isn't going to give any accurate information no matter how hard some military personal squeezes their testicles. The phrase "No matter how hard you squeeze, you can't get blood from a turnip." kind of explains this in a simpler way. The majority of the people detained in Abu-Graib are everyday civilians who tend their land for survival and avoid conflict whenever possible..

Sort of like kidnapping Afgani goatherders, shepards, farmers, etc. and illegally detaining them at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely with the goal of finding out some info on Al-queda hangouts in Afganistan. People being tortured will say ANYTHING at random just so that the torture stops. If the information is found to be untrue and more torture resumes, they'll still say SOMETHING ELSE to get the torture to stop. What they said initially was that they DO NOT KNOW and now it turns out that this is the truth..

The continued assault on human dignity being waged by the Bush regime will have long term reprecussions around the globe. We are witnessing the rise in Islamist fundamentalism in DIRECT RESPONSE to the imperialist policies of the Bush regime..

Why is the United States THE MOST HATED nation in the world today?

A big thank you to George W Bush and his regime of war criminals, petroleum execs and military generals for giving the USA this status by perpetuating imperialism and murdering innocent civilians in Iraq and elsewhere..

Something people can do is demand the return of the US soldiers from Iraq and we can all put down the syringe of petroleum addiction for a while. Especially the family of soldiers needs to be more vocal about returning their loved ones. If anyone should be exposed to the windborne radioactive depleted uranium particulates in Iraq, it should be the senior leaders of the Bush regime, not some 18 year old just out of high school coerced into joining the military by overzealous recruiters. Either way the Iraqi civilians will continue to be exposed to windborne depleted uranium particulates for their entire lives. The Bush regime opened the Pandora's box of toxic radiation in Iraq, a form of genocide..

Depleted uranium causes extreme birth deformities;

http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html

On a more positive note;

If we invest in public transit and pedestrian friendly communities, not more freeways and suburban sprawl we can reduce our petroleum consumption. Let the people of Iraq handle the oil under their land without the interference of Halliburton, Bechtel, Fluor, and other US corporations and the presence of the US military..

luna moth

I agree with the spirit of your comment, but the most horrifying inhuman thing about torture is that interrogators understand this and have adapted their methodology to it. As they're torturing someone, they never assume that anything the victim says is true, they just record everything and pass it along to be "processed." Consequently the torture does not stop. A person can spill everything they know out of terror very quickly and the torturers will just keep going, hour after hour. Look up some interviews of Maryknoll nun Sister Deanna Ortiz.

They just keep right on with the dogs, the rape, the waterboard, the electricity to your nuts, the grinding of cigarettes into your back, whatever, no matter how truthful you've been or how much you beg and plead. Then after they're quite sure you've totally lost your mind to terror and that everything you know has been blabbed out somewhere in the mix -- this may take days -- do they finally stop and hand their notes off to be checked against the results of other interrogations. Unless they have some whimsical sadistic grudge against you, in which case they just keep going until you're dead

There is no crime more foul than this. Most of what gets called "terrorism" doesn't come close. Any person who can do this, any person who can CONDONE doing it, is an abomination. Such people now run the world

If torture is the price of civilization, it's much too high, especially since civilization is on balance a pretty sucky deal anyway. You're a slave. Wake up, quit lying to yourself. All your descendants from here to eternity will be slaves, if you're criminal enough to reproduce. If so, even the "primitive" Arawaks of Hispaniola, to name just one example, had more sense and decency than you. No there is no hope. As long as civilization lives, hope will just be another of its myriad insanities

anti-civ wrote;

"..had more sense and decency than you. No there is no hope. As long as civilization lives, hope will just be another of its myriad insanities."


Thanks, that statement really helps me feel soooo much better about myself. Despite the computer screen medium a living breathing being sits typing and reading these words. Maybe the depressing weight of the knowledge burden we have and attempt to distribute to others via imc free speech will do some of us in before the Homeland Security Gestapo get around to locking us up in the camps..

Though i don't like western civilization either (i love green anarchy & indigenous lifestyle), the "no hope" part of your statement is not healthy thinking for myself. Cynical thinking and apathy in the US public are one of our greatest enemies in fighting the Bush regime, do we have to feel the same despair ourselves??

Torture is morally wrong, brutal, cruel and strategically ineffective to boot. The torture inflicted on Iraqi, Afgani and other innocent civilians in Abu Graib and Guantanamo by the US military is a shameful and disgusting facet of US imperialism that needs to be brought to the attention of EVERYONE around the world. The instigators of this brutal practice of torture (the Bush regime) need to be brought to an international war crimes tribunal for their illegal invasion of Iraq based on lies, deceit and corporate greed..

luna moth

"i don't like western civilization either (i love green anarchy & indigenous lifestyle)"

And in this I will agree there is hope, the only hope. The only really beautiful whole life that has ever been open to all of humanity. When I said 'no hope,' I was moving tactically against the (dominant) mentality that rules it out

Still doesn't do it justice. The colors are hallucinatory!